Understanding to See

By Jason de Koff

The rainy season,
gives birth to living beasts of mud,
locomotives off their rails,
with an unknown destination.

They tear through your mind,
thunder above thunder,
their growling awakes you,
from nightmares.

The dry season,
the season for rebuilding,
to extract life from nature,
survival within its tenets.

Balancing on the slippery rock
called home,
is the honey discovered,
in the dead tree trunk.

Where time excavates the soul,
to find deeper meaning,
and the bee visits many flowers,
to create its hidden elixir.

Jason de Koff is an associate professor of agronomy and soil science at Tennessee State University. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, Jaclyn, and his two daughters, Tegan and Maizie. His chapbook, “Words on Pages”, is currently available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3eookJk.